Brendelburg

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Brendelburg
Land map of the Seulberger Mark from 1715, with "J" "the old Brendelsburg" is marked

Land map of the Seulberger Mark from 1715, with "J" "the old Brendelsburg" is marked

Alternative name (s): Brendelsburg
Creation time : High Middle Ages
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: gone, no remains, overbuilt
Standing position : Knighthood
Place: Friedrichsdorf (Desert Dillingen (Tulingen) )
Geographical location 50 ° 15 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 38' 24.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 38' 24.4"  E
Height: 199  m above sea level NN
Brendelburg (Hesse)
Brendelburg

The Brendel Burg is an Outbound and overbuilt High Middle lowland castle in Friedrichsdorf near the waste fallen Alt-Dillingen (Tulingen) in Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse .

location

The moated castle was 3.5 kilometers northeast of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in front of the southeast slope of the Taunus in the deserted Dillingen. It is said to have had its exact location on the first site of the Garnier Institute . When it was founded, it was in Neugasse , now Bahnstraße . The castle was located to the west of the village of Alt-Dillingen (Tulingen), which fell desolate in the 16th century, between Friedrichsdorf and Seulberg , to the east of Huguenot Street, which was the origin of Friedrichsdorf in the early 18th century.

history

There is no documentary information about the construction and first owner of the castle. The town of Dillungen is documented in 1192 when a Friedrich von Dillingen testified to a contract with which Gottfried von Eppstein bought castle rights . From 1229 it was mentioned as Tullingen, Dollingen and Dullingen , from 1531 Dillingen was used. As early as the 16th century, the place Dillingen was called a desert . The Brendelburg was only a few dozen meters west of the lost place. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the castle is said to have been owned by the Brendel von Homburg (Hoenberg) knight family , who also provided castle men on nearby Homburg . When and why the castle went missing or was destroyed is not known, but a close connection with the desolate place can be assumed.

description

The castle is described as a square complex, fortified with four corner towers . The assumption probably goes back to a land map from 1715, in which the Seulberger Mark is described and the system between the desert of Dillingen and Friedrichsdorf is still recorded.

Others

In the historical novel " The Curse of the Beer Magician ", Brendelburg is described as a place of retreat for the " Beer Prince " Friedrich II of Hesse-Homburg during the Thirty Years' War and the plague . However, the castle descriptions have no historical basis.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 465.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knappe: Burgen in Hessen , p. 465
  2. ↑ Günther Thömmes: The curse of the beer magician : Historical novel , part 3: The beer prince of Homburg - 1633 to 1662 , Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2010, ISBN 978-3-8392-3510-2